The Public Health Department reported 779 new positive PCR tests for COVID-19, over the two-day period of 19-20 January 2022.
The Public Health Department has announced that the daily PCR testing walk-in clinics normally held at South Sound Community Centre will be changed to a drive-thru at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex parking lot effective Friday, 21 January 2022.
The Public Health Department reported 850 new positive PCR tests for COVID-19, over the two-day period of 17-18 January 2022.
The HSA will be holding a special exit testing drive through clinic offering certified lateral flow tests (LFTs) at Truman Bodden Sports Complex parking lot tomorrow, Friday 21 January from 7am – 10am
Having got used to a daily update on the number of Covid cases being diagnosed, the Cayman public must now wait for a weekly update as part of Public Health Department’s new reporting practices.
The Chief Medical Officer (Interim) Dr Autilia Newton reporting on Monday that there had been 843 new positive results for Covid-19 since the last report on Friday, 14 January, which means there are approximately 4,000 current cases of Covid in Cayman, or about one in 18 people with the illness.
The cost of COVID-19 is increasingly being measured not just in lives lost (the ultimate cost), but in the impact on economies.
Anyone quarantining due to a positive Covid test and any of their contacts will now see their quarantine period in which they must remain in isolation reduced, as from Wednesday 19 January.
The Chief Medical Officer (Interim) Dr Autilia Newton reporting on Monday that there had been 843 new positive results for Covid-19 since the last report on Friday, 14 January, which means there are approximately 4,000 current cases of Covid in Cayman, or about one in 18 people with the illness
Public Health has shifted from daily reporting of COVID-19 statistics to weekly after an assessment led by interim Chief Medical Officer Dr. Autilia Newton and visiting advisors from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in early December 2021.